Integrating Virtue Together is a community of practice for faculty across institutions and disciplines to cultivate virtues through a course in 2026-2027. Chosen faculty will attend a working conference at Notre Dame & receive a stipend. Full CFP: https://t.co/ktb9Hs0jd2

In our metrics-driven world, Karen Bohlin offers a quiet invitation to slow down – and let poetry restore what busyness often erodes. Read the full piece in our Virtues & Vocations magazine here: https://t.co/0eePk2w4bD

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Question to KSP: How do we live in truth, goodness, and beauty? -- Discussion of this section of the book and what it means for how we live and find our calling.

Another myth the book was trying to counter: "Do what you love and you'll never work a day in your life." The book offers a more positive vision of work.

"Passions are internal and calling is external" - KSP says this is the core of her argument.

The core of the book began in her discussions with undergraduates. The message to "follow your passion" was pervasive, but she saw it leading to despair. This book draws the distinction between calling and passion.

We will be discussing Karen Swallow Prior's most recent book, You Have a Calling: Finding Your Vocation in the True, Good, and Beautiful (Brazos Press 2025) -

We will be live tweeting the conversation, but there is still time to join us!

Join us today at 12:00 P.M. EST for a fabulous conversation with author Karen Swallow Prior @KSPrior on finding your vocation. Audience Q&A will follow. Register here: https://t.co/fAIUrG1XYQ

As we head into Thanksgiving weekend, enjoy this reflection on what makes her work meaningful from Maria Vazquez, the Superintendent, Orange County Public Schools (Florida). Read more in our Virtues & Vocations magazine: https://t.co/Ifp6VRNqTm

On Monday, December 1 at noon ET join us for a conversation with Karen Swallow Prior about her latest book, 'You Have a Calling' and what that means for our work and other commitments. Time for audience questions! Register: https://t.co/acL3ePBErZ

In the latest Virtues & Vocations magazine, Ricardo Nuila of @bcmhouston reflects on the legacy of care passed down in his family and how his grandfather’s patient-first ethos shapes his work today. Read the full article at: https://t.co/eVJUqejlqp

In the latest Virtues & Vocations magazine, Anna Moreland of @VillanovaU reflects on friendship, community, and the quiet, interior work of cultivating true leisure. Read the full article in the Virtues & Vocations magazine at https://t.co/SIp4sOBdss

For our latest edition of the Virtues & Vocations magazine, we asked "What makes your work for meaningful?" For education and artist Jason Wesaw, its born from love and visual arts. Read more at https://t.co/3xzfx62o58

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Do books cultivate empathy? In the article, Szalai notes the "stubbornly seductive" idea that fiction enlarges our moral imagination, then cite Zadie Smith's caution that "people's hearts can be opened extensively, and they can do nothing."

We're having a discussion about the ways different authors approach the emotional and cognitive aspects of empathy and how that shapes the discussion of whether and when it is good.

"Even the books that are 'against empathy' argue that we should have some kind of sympathy or love..."

As we turn to a discussion of empathy, Jennifer says Paul Bloom's book and an Op-Ed by David French as two pieces that moved her to write her piece -

We are starting the conversation by exploring the profession of book critic, how Jennifer came to the work, and how she approaches it now. What does the vocation of journalist and critic look like?